Correction taken and point well made.

To read your post without following your link (for which many thanks) it looks like I’m suggesting people just “stand and deliver”.

At no point am I suggesting (I wouldn’t dream of suggesting!) that a presenter isn’t alive to his or her audience: not sure where I said that. The point I was making was really about the design and structure of a presentation - not the delivery. I’m not even really saying you should take questions if they arise during a presentation…

…just that if your presentation is sufficiently well designed there shouldn’t (often) need to be questions as you go through it.

Good stuff

It is quite amazing that these are such commonly known faults, and yet I saw them all in one short conference…

Michael, Dick Hardt’s example presentation is a classic - there is another Linked from this post here.

(I highly recommend following Michael and Andrew’s links by the way)

Great stuff. Some great tips we all (or at least just me) can use to improve our presentations. I posted on a similar topic “PowerPoint: The Good and Bad” http://mikeschaffner.typepad.com/michael_schaffner/2007/07/powerpoint-the-.html that includes some utube clips of Dick Hardt’s classic PowerPoint presentation (easily the most impressive I’ve ever seen) and comic Don McMillan’s presentation which highligts many of the points you made.

Your top ten shares some common elements with an audience survey conducted by Chris Brogan where a few of the common responses were “do not read the slides,” “use better visuals,” and “avoid bullets.”